Two days after Kusum was found dead the Bengaluru police managed to nab her killer from his hideout in Haryana.

Less than a month before she was killed, 31-year-old Kusum Singla, a techie with IBM in Bengaluru, befriended a man on Facebook, but little did she know that he was going to be her nemesis.

Two days after Kusum was found dead the Bengaluru police managed to nab her killer from his hideout in Haryana. The youth had strangled the woman in her apartment in the up-market JP Nagar locality in the city on Tuesday and had escaped to Gurgaon with her personal belongings, including jewellery, debit and credit cards.

Kusum Singla (31), a divorcee, had been transferred to Bengaluru from Noida just six months ago by the company. She had rented an accommodation, which she shared with another girl, in Mahaveer Kings apartments in Kadugodi in southeast Bengaluru.

On the day of the crime, Kusum was seen entering the apartment with an unidentified man around 3.30 pm. Four hours later when her room-mate returned she found Kusum's lifeless body in the house.

During investigation, police analysed Kusum's call records and zeroed in on a few suspicious numbers and tracked their movement using mobile towers.

One particular mobile number to which she frequently made calls was traced to Haryana. When the police back-tracked the movement of the subscriber, they found out that he was present in the area when the murder was committed on Tuesday around the same time. The police formed six different teams to identify and nab the killer. "The accused has been identified as Sukhbir Singh, a resident of Ribar village in Hatin taluk, Haryana. As Kusum was single, he befriended her on Facebook and they had even met each other on several occasions. As he was unemployed, he hatched a plot to cheat Kusum and take her money. On Tuesday, he entered her apartment, took advantage of the situation, and strangled her and escaped the spot with her credit cards, debit cards, cheque books and smartphone," said Bengaluru City Additional Commissioner of Police (East) P Harishekaran.

According to cops, Sukhbir worked with an internet giant in the past and couldn't find job. As he was unemployed for a long time, he allegedly preyed on single women for a lavish lifestyle.